Karen Percy

Karen Percy is a senior reporter in the Melbourne newsroom. She has three decades of experience, reporting for the ABC in Adelaide, Alice Springs, Darwin and Sydney in radio and television. She's also served as a foreign correspondent — as the ABC's South East Asia correspondent from 2006-2009 and as a freelancer based in Moscow (2010-2013). You can follow her on Twitter: @PercyKaren

Four Melbourne men are given prison terms of up to four years, after they admit to plotting to sail from Queensland to the Philippines to work with Muslim militants to overthrow the government and introduce sharia law.

A former senior staffer in Federal Minister Michaelia Cash's office tells a court he knew a media tip-off about police raids on union offices would be politically damaging for Opposition Leader Bill Shorten.

A media advisor working for the Registered Organisations Commission — who had been offered a job in Senator Michaelia Cash's office — was the source of a leak about federal police raids on offices of the Australian Workers' Union, the Federal Court hears.

The Federal Court hears a staff member for the then-justice minister joined Senator Michaelia Cash's former media advisor in tipping off journalists about the AFP raids on the offices of the Australian Workers' Union (AWU) in October 2017.

Federal Small Business Minister Michaelia Cash will be cross-examined by the Australia Workers' Union this week, as they fight to shut down what they say is a politically-motivated investigation into their donations to GetUp!

Senator Cash had challenged the subpoena to appear before the Federal Court, but her lawyer says she is now prepared to give evidence at a suitable time to accommodate parliamentary and ministerial commitments.

As the families of those killed in 2017’s Bourke St driving rampage tell a court of their deep and ongoing sadness, tendered documents reveal James Gargasoulas had a long and violent criminal history and was on bail at the time of the attack.

Fresh allegations of excessive force by Victorian police prompt legal experts to call for an overhaul of how complaints against police are handled, and end the practice of police investigating their own.

The officer, who had known the girl from when she was 13 years old, asked her to send nude pictures of herself, and had sent a photo of himself in uniform taken from a low angle, saying: "That is the view ur gunna have on ur knees baby ;)."

Saeed Noori, who killed an elderly man and injured others when he drove through a busy intersection on Flinders Street in Melbourne four days before Christmas last year, pleads guilty in the Supreme Court.

Christian Boillot, a key player in a wide-ranging corruption scandal involving the Reserve Bank and its note-printing subsidiaries, is released by the courts after being sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail.

A man started a fire at a factory where his ex, her new partner and her daughter were sleeping, killing all three, after becoming distressed when the woman ended their relationship, a court has been told.